vsftpd installed no error unable 2 connect

Summary:

I installed vsftpd from the wiki guide. All seems OK but no error an unable 2 connect

vsftpd installed no error unable 2 connect

Crazymans 24 Mar 2008 08:46

I have 2 tell you I'm very new here and my unix experience is > 25 years ago.
But I got into my MyBookWorld500 and made ssh permanent, installed Optware and Nano and vsftpd through Optware without any visible problem.
I used the great wiki-guide [http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/vsftpd] and netstat -a | grep ftp gives
tcp 0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN so I guess everything should be working but I cannot connect.

When I do ftp://IP:21 I get a connectbox but I cannot use Anonymous and no User/Password combinations work either.
Its just never accepted although this vsftpd.conf (and restarted):

## Allow anonymous FTP? (Beware - allowed by default if you comment this out).
anonymous_enable=YES
## Uncomment this to allow local users to log in.
local_enable=YES

I created the logfile by a touch-command but it stays empty …..

What do I do wrong???

Re: vsftpd installed no error unable 2 connect

mozetti 24 Mar 2008 09:05

What are you permissions on the directory you have shared with vsftpd? SSH to your MyBook, cd to the directory that vsftpd is set to share and post the output of these commands (that is a lowercase "L" in all those commands):

To get the permissions of the files/directories in the folder vsftpd is sharing:

ls -l

Then, go up one directory (to the parent directory of the one vsftpd is set to share) by typing:

cd ..

And then get the permissions there by typing:

ls -l

I haven't set up vsftpd (yet — going to soon), but I had permissions problems when using rsync. Just a hunch, but maybe permissions are your problem, meaning when vsftpd tries to list the contents of the directory, the user/vsftpd doesn't have the permission to do so.

Re: vsftpd installed no error unable 2 connect

Crazymans 24 Mar 2008 09:24

I still haven't found out how to change the default share directory, but the default should be /var/ftp/pub so I made it by hand:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 24 10:15 pub

This doesn't work, but I also would like it to change it to a MyBookWorld-share like public (/shares/external/public probably but I don't know how 2 make that yet). My /shares/internal/public (made by the WD Access-tool) is drwxrwxr-x 4 root www-data 4096 Mar 24 06:26 PUBLIC

Tried (just 4 test) adding this 2 vsftpd.conf
local_root=/shares/internal/PUBLIC

ls-l of the files gives:
-rwxr..r.. 1 www-data www-data 735033344 Mar 17 18:52 file1
-rwxr..r.. 1 www-data www-data 75596 Mar 24 10:44 file2

Last edited on 24 Mar 2008 10:09 by Crazymans Show more

Re: vsftpd installed no error unable 2 connect

mozetti 24 Mar 2008 10:37

Well, it looks like the permissions shouldn't be a problem. Although the ftp directory is owned by the user 'root' and the group 'root', it allows others to read and execute. You could try to get the ftp directories permissions to match those of the default share (/shares/internal/public) by assigning it to the group 'www-data' and giving the group 'write' permission. To do that, ssh to the MyBook, su to root, and type these commands:

Go the parent directory of the ftp directory:

cd /var/ftp

Change the group ownership of the /pub directory, recursively (-R) and with verbose output (-v):

chown -R -v :www-data pub

Give write permission to the group for the /pub directory, recursively (-R) with verbose output (-v):

chmod -R -v g+w pub

After doing that, your permissions should look like this for /var/ftp/pub:

drwxrwxr-x 2 root www-data 4096 <date time> pub

Now try logging in and see if that helps. If it doesn't, you can change it back — if you need help doing that just reply here.

As far as changing the directory vsftpd uses, I'd assume you can do that in the vsftpd.conf file.

Last edited on 24 Mar 2008 10:39 by mozetti Show more

Re: vsftpd installed no error unable 2 connect

Crazymans 24 Mar 2008 11:10

Thanx 4 the help, but didnt work. I changed the permissions and they changed as you expected. (I will practice some more with these commands: Good 4 me!). Then removed the local_root entry from vsftpd.conf and restarted the network. Still cannot pass the ftp loginscreen ….

Maybe I should connect as FTPuser "www-data" but that was probably created by the WD-software and I do not know the password 4 that user ….

Re: vsftpd installed no error unable 2 connect

Crazymans 25 Mar 2008 20:12

Very slowly I'm making some progress after reading and trying a lot. I cannot say its very easy.

The best tip I got from this wiki is using the commandline version of ftp instead of ftp://<IP> from IE.
Now for the first time I saw some errors coming by!

First I made a new user myftp using the Shared Storage Manager and a directory /home/myftp (using Putty)
Then I used this vsftpd.conf:

anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
dirmessage_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log
dirlist_enable=YES
text_userdb_names=YES
use_localtime=YES
userlist_enable=YES
userlist_deny=NO
userlist_file=/opt/etc/vsftpd.user_list
write_enable=YES
anon_max_rate=1
connect_timeout=360
data_connection_timeout=500
file_open_mode=0777
idle_session_timeout=120
local_umask=0777
max_clients=2
max_per_ip=1
cmds_allowed=STOR,PASV,RETR,QUIT,PWD,TYPE,LIST,CWD,CDUP
chown_username=www-data
ftp_username=www-data
local_root=/shares/internal/PUBLIC

Then I made this /opt/etc/vsftpd.user_list:
myftp

Great! This works using WS_FTP, but not when using ftp://<IP>

Then I made a new directory /shares/internal/FTPROOT using the Shared Storage Manager giving full permissons to the user myftp and changed the vsftpd.conf to local_root=/shares/internal/FTPROOT

That didnot work, because of some right problem. Strangely it was made the same way as /shares/internal/FTPROOT

I have 2 read some more. But its exciting! Any help is welcome.

Last edited on 25 Mar 2008 20:39 by Crazymans Show more

Re: vsftpd installed no error unable 2 connect

tommer-x 24 Oct 2012 20:20

Thanks Crazymans for your config and description of instalation on vsftpd. Here are some of my observations from configuration:
local_umask - should be 000 instead of 0777 for full access of uploaded files;
cmds_allowed - there should be added command DELE and RMD, if you want also delete files and folders via ftp and MKD for possibility to add new folder

here is my full vsftpd.conf:
anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
dirmessage_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=NO
xferlog_enable=YES
xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log
dirlist_enable=YES
text_userdb_names=YES
use_localtime=YES
userlist_enable=YES
userlist_deny=NO
userlist_file=/opt/etc/vsftpd.user_list
write_enable=YES
local_max_rate=0
anon_max_rate=1
connect_timeout=360
data_connection_timeout=500
file_open_mode=0777
idle_session_timeout=120
local_umask=000
max_clients=10
max_per_ip=5
cmds_allowed=STOR,PASV,RETR,QUIT,PWD,TYPE,LIST,CWD,CDUP,DELE,MKD,RMD,NOOP
chown_username=www-data
ftp_username=www-data
local_root=/shares/internal/PUBLIC
chroot_local_user=YES
chmod_enable=YES
anon_upload_enable=NO
anon_mkdir_write_enable=NO
anon_other_write_enable=NO
anon_world_readable_only=NO
chown_uploads=NO
ftpd_banner=Welcome to MyBook FTP service
hide_ids=YES
pasv_min_port=50000
pasv_max_port=60000
nopriv_user=nobody
ls_recurse_enable=NO
ascii_upload_enable=NO
ascii_download_enable=NO
async_abor_enable=NO
one_process_model=NO
pam_service_name=ftp